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Second, and more importantly for pharmacokinetics, C-terminal amidation provides a robust, nearly impenetrable defense against circulating carboxypeptidasesendogenous enzymes that would otherwise rapidly degrade the peptide by aggressively cleaving residues from the unprotected C-terminal end
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So you need a constant supply of antioxidants to switch off free radical damage